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Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

New York Releases Preliminary Outline of Cap-and-Invest Program

On December 20, 2023, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) released a pre-proposal outline of New York State’s...more

ClientsFirst Consulting

12 Days of CRM: Day Nine - Cost Benefit Analysis: Investing In Your CRM Capabilities

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On the ninth day of CRM Chris “Kringle” Fritsch performed for me, a cost-benefit analysis of investing in our CRM capabilities! Many firms struggle with being industry-focused and segmenting their audiences effectively....more

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Lead Service Lines/Cost Benefit Analysis: Natural Resource Defense Council Issues Report

The National Resource Defense Council (“NRDC”) published an October 2023 report titled: Getting the Lead Out – Removing Lead Pipes Would Yield Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Health Benefits (“Report”)...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

Biden Expands Consideration of Social Cost of Carbon by Federal Agencies

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the...more

Legal Internet Solutions Inc.

What You Need to Know Before Building Your 2024 Law Firm Marketing Budget

July 12, 2023 | Blog I still have a little trauma from this time of year: Budgeting Season. Despite the fact I love numbers and pouring over spreadsheets, the firm-wide marketing budget process is a beast unlike any other....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Is Increasing — But Is Uncertainty Over the Measurement of Climate Impacts Artificially...

On July 16, 2023, Climatewire (subscription required) released a peer review letter on EPA’s Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (SC-GHG), which got a fair bit of press last year, because EPA’s metric was $190/ton, even though...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

OMB Proposes to Revise Circular A-4; This is Not Trivial

On Thursday, the Office of Management and Budget released proposed revisions to “Circular A-4”.  It also released a separate preamble, explaining its thinking and asking for comment on certain identified issues....more

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In Praise of Fuzzy Math

As we approach the two-year mark, there are plenty of unfinished items on the President’s to-do list. One in particular that tends to escape the limelight is of crucial importance to implementing Biden’s policy priorities,...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Can Cumulative Impact Analysis Improve Cost-Benefit Analysis?

As frequent readers know, I am a big fan of cost-benefit analysis. The basic idea is that, when we make a decision to regulate at a certain level, we are by definition deciding that regulating to that level is “worth” the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The Social Cost of Carbon Lives! The Red States Have Nothing To Complain About

The Fifth Circuit has stayed an order blocking Biden administration use of the “Interim Estimates” of the social cost of greenhouse gases.  The Court did not leave much doubt that the administration will prevail on the...more

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Clean Air Act Cost Benefit Analysis Is Required Only When Authorized By Statute, Except If It Is Imposed By Executive Order, But...

The law of regulatory cost benefit analysis just became even more incoherent under a ruling of the Western District of Louisiana enjoining implementation of President Biden’s executive order setting parameters to establish...more

Legal Internet Solutions Inc.

The Marketing Audit: Understanding Where You Are and Where You’re Going

New year, new leadership, new job, new motivation, new reality – whatever the reason, there comes a time when we are ready for new and exciting marketing initiatives. Generally, we think the starting point to getting the...more

Miller Canfield

New Cost-Benefit Analysis for Filing a Research Credit Refund Claim

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The IRS issued Interim Guidance that likely will increase the expense and burden of filing research credit refund claims. Research credits in original returns are not affected by the Interim Guidance....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The Internal Combustion Engine Is Bad For Your Health — What Should We Do About It?

I’ve written a lot about how the developing science around particulate exposure supports making the PM2.5 NAAQS more stringent. So it won’t come as a surprise that a new study published in the Proceedings of the National...more

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The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Pursuing Investor-State Arbitration in a Post-Pandemic World

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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many State actions in pursuit of the public interest, but while all States have faced this unprecedented global challenge with some degree of similarity, State responses have varied from one...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

New York Public Service Commission Sends Utilities’ Transmission Planning Proposals Back to the Drawing Board

As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) solicits comments regarding fundamental changes to its regulation of the country’s electricity transmission systems; as the temperature rises in New York State regarding...more

Lighthouse

Productizing Your Corporate Legal Department’s Services: Making Build vs. Buy vs. Outsourcing Decisions

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For years, general counsel have weighed the pros and cons of doing a task internally versus sending the work to outside counsel – this is not a new dichotomy. What is newer, however, is the proliferation of technology...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The Test For Injunctive Relief Was Not Developed By a Risk Assessor

Earlier this Month, Judge James Boasberg, who had previously ruled that the easement allowing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline must be vacated due to a failure to comply with NEPA, nonetheless declined to issue an...more

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The Biden Administration’s Approach to the Social Cost of Carbon

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As part of his comprehensive climate change agenda, President Biden convened a task force to assess the social cost of greenhouse gases. At the end of February, the task force published an interim report estimating the “cost”...more

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President Biden’s ‘Modernizing Regulatory Review’ Memorandum

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Much of the attention in President Joseph Biden’s executive actions in his first 100 days has been focused on his numerous executive orders on topics ranging from climate and COVID-19 to race and gender. Although these...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Very Complicated — And Very Important

It’s only a slight rhetorical exaggeration to say that the limited bandwidth left to environmental issues other than climate change in recent years has been largely occupied by concerns about PFAS – Per-and polyfluoroalkyl...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

It’s the Externalities, Stupid — Climate Edition

Among the important provisions of President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis is the requirement to review and revise estimates of the...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: EPA’s Cost Benefit Analysis Rule: The Necessity and Limits of Cost Benefit Analysis Expected this Year

Last summer, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began one of the more important, and less understood, rulemakings in recent years in “Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Cost in the Clean...more

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Seventh Circuit Creates Third Standard in FCA Dismissal Authority Circuit Split

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The Seventh Circuit’s novel statutory interpretation of the government’s dismissal authority under 31 USC § 3730(c)(2)(A) may have unintended consequences. ...more

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CFPB Symposium Considers Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Regulation

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On July 29, 2020, the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB) held a symposium on the use of cost-benefit analysis in consumer financial protection regulation. CFPB Director Kathleen Kraninger provided opening remarks,...more

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